Tag: Biodiversity

Train to Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Arctic ground squirrel is a species of ground squirrel native to the Arctic. It is one of the wildlife easily observed by visitors to the Denali National Park.
-The Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska...

By Peter Prokosch

Snow Sheep or Dall's Sheep (Ovis nivicola borealis), Denali National Park, AlaskaThe snow sheep inhabit Arctic mountainous areas, e.g. in the northeast of Siberia the Putoran mountains. The snow sheep in North America, here watched in the Denali National Park, is also called Dall's Sheep, and some zo...

By Peter Prokosch

Towards Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Towards Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Towards Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and contains Denali (Mount McKinley), with 6,194 m the highest mountain in North America.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² are...

By Peter Prokosch

Towards Denali National Park, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and contains Denali (Mount McKinley), with 6,194 m the highest mountain in North America.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² are...

By Peter Prokosch

Denali National Park, Kahiltna Glacier near Mount McKinley, AlaskaThe Denali National Park is located in Interior Alaska and includes Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest mountain in North America at 6,194 m high.
The national park and preserve is over 24,500 km², of which 19,120 km² ...

By Peter Prokosch

Beluga Whales (Delphinapterus leucas), North of Thule, North-West GreenlandBelugas are gregarious and they form groups of up to 10 animals on average, although during the summer months, they can gather in the hundreds or even thousands in estuaries and shallow coastal areas. They are slow swimm...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of Red Knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), one day old, Thule, North-Westr GreenlandThe breeding habitat of the Purple Sandpiper is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and northwestern Europe. They nest on the ground either elevated on rocks or in lower damp lo...

By Peter Prokosch

Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima), Thule, North-Westr GreenlandThe breeding habitat of the Purple Sandpiper is the northern tundra on Arctic islands in Canada and coastal areas in Greenland and northwestern Europe. They nest on the ground either elevated on rocks or in lower damp lo...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Arctic desert, Olrik Fjord, Northern GreenlandScarcely vegetated slopes at the Olrik fjord are the breeding habitat of red knots. Some parts of Northern Greenland are not covered by the huge inland ice cap. They contain the most northerly ice-free region of the worl...

By Peter Prokosch

Red Xanthoria Lichen, Olrik Fjord, North-West GreenlandRed lichens are found in the Arctic tundra breeding habitats of the red knot sandpiper. With their reddish breeding plumage the birds are difficult to recognize in the vast tundra areas.

By Peter Prokosch

Breeding habitat of Red Knots (Calidris canutus iskandica), Thule, GreenlandThe Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer...

By Peter Prokosch

One day old Red Knots (Calidris canutus iskandica), Thule, GreenlandThe Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer...

By Peter Prokosch

Red Knot (Calidris canutus iskandica) in breeding habitat, Thule, GreenlandThe Red Knot is breeding with 6 subspecies in the circumpolar high Arctic tundra. Calidris canutus islandica is breeding in the barren lands of North Greenland and North-East Canada. In the very short high Arctic summer...

By Peter Prokosch

Northern Clouded Yellow (Colias hecla) Caterpillar, Thule, North-West GreenlandThe Northern Clouded Yellow or Hecla Sulphur (Colias hecla) is one of the very few butterfly species still to be found in Northern Greenland. In Europe, it is found in the northern part of Norway, Sweden and Finland up t...